Music Video (Near Its Final Draft)

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sdelahoyde

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Here's a video we shot with the DVX for the Chicago band Clearly and the Mainstream. There are a couple of quirks here and there that need to be worked out, but after a month and a half of editing, I'm ready to put the thing to bed already.

Quicktime: http://ic.funk.nu/Quicktime/catm-motion.mov
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Real Player: http://ic.funk.nu/Real/catm-motion.rm

Oh, for the technical stuff, we shot this in Advanced, on a gigantic blue screen we'd borrowed (it was the same one Liz Phair used for her EPK! Wow! Trivia!), as well as two six foot green insert screens. Lit with around 7 omnis. Blue turned out not to work as great as the green inserts, but still pretty well.

Whole thing was put into sync in After Effects, where most everything took place. After that, we dumped the scenes/shots into Vegas and pieced everything together in there.
 
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Very well done, I really enjoyed the look of the 2Dish musicians. I would love to see more work of yours!!!
 
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That kicked major ass. This video is as good as any I've seen on Mtv. Great great POST work. Eye Candy up the ass. Very entertaining! Props! Serious. You should be proud; this video is flat out cool. Visually pleasing and stimulating. Tight editing. Original. Fun. ****. Your future is bright if not already.

BTW

Why do musicians dress like Nancy's?
 
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Glad everyone's enjoyed it thus far.  It's one of those things that you've spent so much time with that you start being unable to look at it with a different, non-self-critical perspective, so it's nice to hear the good words.

You're right about the weird outfits.  The group's orange and white outfit is their look, or so I was told.  The combo is a nice grouping elsewhere in the world (i.e. non-clothing), yet orange worked for Devo, so I'm conflicted.  I guess my sticking to the jeans and t-shirts solidifies my place far away from rock stardom.  Ho hum.

For Kyle, there's my reel (a lot of DVX material) here: http://ic.funk.nu/steve.html  or a lot of our films here: http://www.irritablecolon.com/films.html
 
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Holy Crap! I like. I like a lot. That was a lot of effects. Where did you learn most of the stuff you know about After Effects? I'm gonna pick it up pretty soon here and I just want to know where the best place to learn from would be. Great job, I hope it gets on TV, it deserves it.
 
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Thanks much for the good words. For the past few years, I'd been trying to pick up After Effects and seriously get into it, but it's got a big learning curve, so I'd quit after the first couple of hours. Back in December, I just decided that now was the time, so I sat with the thing, fumbled around with it, read a lot of the help documentation when I got lost, and looked on message boards for hints and for tutorials to try. It seems like an impossible task to start with, but hey, if I can make neat stuff like this after just five months with the program, then it's got to be possible to learn it fairly easily, right?
 
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Thanks for the links to your reel. You have some interesting stuff! Keep it up!
 
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